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Saturday, October 18, 2014

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-thon

A little background:

What is Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-thon? For 24 hours, we read books, post to our blogs, Twitters, Tumblrs, Goodreads and MORE about our reading, and visit other readers’ homes online. We also participate in mini-challenges throughout the day. It happens twice a year, in April and in October.
It was created by the beloved Dewey (her blog has since been taken down, so the link won’t work). The first one was held in October 2007. Dewey died in late 2008. We’re still saddened by her absence, but the show must go on. The read-a-thon was renamed to honor its founder in 2009.
Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-thon is hosted by Heather and Andi of The Estella Society, with help from volunteers.

This will be my first Dewey's RaT. I was urged lots of times and all the time by my friend Karsyn@KaKiJoKoJA, who is also doing this for her 2nd time. I remember when she was doing it the first time and how much fun she seemed to be having, so I'm going to go ahead and take the plunge and join in.

It's here!! it starts in about 10 minutes for me, I am geared up and ready to go. This is my post, the place I will update, so throughout the 24 hours I will update this post only, so it will be constantly changing. ﻿

As a recap, I have listed my goals:

Tentatively, My Goals are as follows:

~read 4 booksfinished

~800-1000 pages

Goals have been MET!! WOOHOO!

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? I am reading from Orlando, Florida 2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Fly by my pants sorta girl, no books on my TBR for today3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? I shamelessly didn't go shopping, short on funds, so normal foods for me:(4) Tell us a little something about yourself! 33 year old single mom, work full time in the medical industry, blogger as a hobby when the kiddo goes to bed, I am a super reader, have been reading since as far back as I can remember. 5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to. This is my first one! so excited!

End of Event Meme:

Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year? Jodi Picoult for sure

Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year? nope none

What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon? I liked the hourly challenges

How many books did you read? 8

What were the names of the books you read? see above

Which book did you enjoy most? Jodi picoults books

Which did you enjoy least? honea byrne

If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders? no

How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time? I am for sure participating again. I like the reading role, or hosting. not sure id want to cheer and take away from my own reading, since it seems like the cheerleaders have to visit an insane amount of blogs.

My thoughts on this RaT: I really wanted to read 24 hours, but I think the last time I looked at the clock was about 2:45 or so, then I apparently sacked out shortly after that. I didn't do the snacking thing, took about a hour break for lunch/walmart, but mostly read the entire other time. Caught up on some author requested books, and read the Jodi picoult books i've been wanting to read. now I just need to go write reviews! I had fun, I will definitely do it again.﻿

Hey woman! I've been here twice briefly, just getting a chance to say HI!! Geeez, cheering is a LOT of work. I think I'll only cheer once a year, take it easy the other time. It's been nutters! Thank goodness for multitasking with the audiobook. Have you been having fun?

**disclaimer** The reviews on this blog are of my personal opinion only, I am not, nor will I (unfortunately) ever be, a professional book reviewer, affiliated with any company, newspaper, etc. I try to give my honest review, brutal or otherwise, because even though I understand the time and dedication that goes into a book, once I have read a book, I usually have strong opinions on it, and again, this is my personal opinion on what I read